After carefully studying the standards, text complexity indicators and already identified text exemplars, please utilize this page to offer suggestions of where "frequently utilized" literature and informational texts should be placed in the Onslow County School System by grade-level.
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Grade-level
Text Name
Rationale for grade-level recommendation
Grade Level 10 or English II
Stories:
"The Voter" by Chinua Achebe- this is in the textbook and a great intro to Things Fall Apart Night by Elie Wiesel - this autobiography addresses mature issues relevant to World Literature Nectar in a Sieve- by Kamala Markandaya- While I beleive the lexile of this novel is lower (900L)- the content (prostitution, starvation, and theme of hope/despair) is age appropriate for 10th grade The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas- Lexile 830, but works great as a foreign author and world literature classic- I am concerned about slating certain things to levels (specifically 6-8) based soley on Lexiles if they will never actually be taught.- Kaffir Boy in America by Mark Mathabane - I have seen this taught in 7th grade and in 10th grade- the lexile is 1040L which is right under the 1080 mark for 9-10 band.
Drama- A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare - I think it would be great to have 9-10 read a tragedy and a comedy by Shakespeare. I realize all the Shakespeare plays will need to be discussed and placed. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand- This is a world author (830L)
Grade Level - 11 or English III- The Following recommendations are based on availability of texts, relevance to standards, and offer a variety of texts to fit into units focused on American Literature. I realize that frederick Douglas' Autobiography is slated for 6-8, but can we still use the excerpt?
Novels: The Green Mile The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman Of Mice and Men
Drama:
“The Crucible”
“Othello” (not currently taught, but would like the possibility)
Stories:
Ernest Hemingway,“The Killers”
Washington Irving, “The Devil and Tom Walker”
Nathanial Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “Masque of the Red Death,” “Hop-Frog,” “Berenice,” “Fall of the House of Usher”
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Mark Twain, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
Bret Harte, “Luck of Roaring Camp”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
Nonfiction Pieces:
Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” (excerpt)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” “Nature” (excerpts)
Fredrick Douglass, “My Bondage, My Freedom” (excerpt)
Poetry:
Phillis Wheatley, “To His Excellency, General Washington”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Old Ironsides,” “The Chambered Nautilus”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (several poems)
William Cullen Bryant, “To a Waterfowl,” “Thanatopsis”
Please include the following in your post:
Grade Level 10 or English II
Stories:"The Voter" by Chinua Achebe- this is in the textbook and a great intro to Things Fall Apart
Night by Elie Wiesel - this autobiography addresses mature issues relevant to World Literature
Nectar in a Sieve- by Kamala Markandaya- While I beleive the lexile of this novel is lower (900L)- the content (prostitution, starvation, and theme of hope/despair) is age appropriate for 10th grade
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas- Lexile 830, but works great as a foreign author and world literature classic- I am concerned about slating certain things to levels (specifically 6-8) based soley on Lexiles if they will never actually be taught.-
Kaffir Boy in America by Mark Mathabane - I have seen this taught in 7th grade and in 10th grade- the lexile is 1040L which is right under the 1080 mark for 9-10 band.
Drama-
A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare - I think it would be great to have 9-10 read a tragedy and a comedy by Shakespeare. I realize all the Shakespeare plays will need to be discussed and placed.
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand- This is a world author (830L)
Grade Level - 11 or English III- The Following recommendations are based on availability of texts, relevance to standards, and offer a variety of texts to fit into units focused on American Literature. I realize that frederick Douglas' Autobiography is slated for 6-8, but can we still use the excerpt?
Novels:The Green Mile
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Of Mice and Men
Drama:
“The Crucible”
“Othello” (not currently taught, but would like the possibility)
Stories:
Ernest Hemingway,“The Killers”
Washington Irving, “The Devil and Tom Walker”
Nathanial Hawthorne, “The Minister’s Black Veil”
Edgar Allan Poe, “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “Masque of the Red Death,” “Hop-Frog,” “Berenice,” “Fall of the House of Usher”
Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
Mark Twain, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”
Bret Harte, “Luck of Roaring Camp”
Kate Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
Nonfiction Pieces:
Jonathan Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”
Henry David Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” (excerpt)
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance,” “Nature” (excerpts)
Fredrick Douglass, “My Bondage, My Freedom” (excerpt)
Poetry:
Phillis Wheatley, “To His Excellency, General Washington”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Old Ironsides,” “The Chambered Nautilus”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (several poems)
William Cullen Bryant, “To a Waterfowl,” “Thanatopsis”